Month: July 2015

Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge was a huge must on my list of things to do in New York City. My second weekend at Parsons we made the trek on the subway to the bridge to trek across it to Brooklyn to trek to Williamsburg. Yes… lots of trekking happened. The day we decided to…

Soho is a staple Manhattan Icon. It has cobble stone streets, coloured buildings littered with coordinated fire escapes and impeccably dressed women flitting in and out of luxury stores. It it’s gorgeous opulence I find myself wandering through the streets constantly taking pictures of every fire escape or cobble stone that I pass treating every…

Ma Lai Gao or Sponge Cake is a quintessential component of the life and childhood times of me. Having canvassed various dim sum cart ladies to bring me a centre piece of delicious, fluffy yellow cake heaven throughout my formative years I, more accurately my dad, have learned to make the coveted recipe. Recipe 1…

Every girl get’s crushes: celebrity crushes, man crush monday’s #mcm, girl crushes #wcw the list continues in perpetuity. What I’m trying to get out is please enjoy my trials and tribulations attempting to get my next door neighbour to notice me. Which is P.D.A. (Pretty Damn Awkward) if you ask me. The course of the…

The Museum Mile Festival is one night a year when 5th ave is closed off on museum mile for a street festival. For us who had class from 9-4, Monday to Friday or work during those same hours visiting a museum can be difficult. Because of this one night Marianne and I decided to take…

When I was around 9 or 10 years old my dad taught me how to make hollandaise sauce. I don’t know if he taught me because he was tired of making Sunday brunch alone or if he taught me because I would always sit on the counter next to him while he made me breakfast…

I’ve talked about these two girls quite a bit, not directly but enough to the point where they know I’m talking about them… or at least in Marianne’s cause her pictures are ALL OVER the blog. These two wonderful women are the two crazies who put up with my crazy and they are my Parsons…

June 8th is a day I will not forget. Why? I went to the Boathouse for dinner. The Boathouse overlooks the pond in Central park and Bethesda Terrace. While dining under its red awnings it’s common to catch a glimpse of the turtles and fish who live in these waters. The grandeur of the Boathouse…